Did You Know? One of the last SS units to hold out defending Hitler’s bunker in Berlin was comprised entirely of Frenchmen

The 33rd Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS Charlemagne (1st French) and Charlemagne Regiment are collective names used for units of French volunteers in the Wehrmacht and later Waffen-SS
during World War II. From estimates of 7,400 to 11,000 at its peak in
1944, the strength of the division fell to just sixty men in May 1945.

WW2 German Ace Stumbled Across a Crippled B-17 and Escorted It Home – Now the Veterans are Friends

Truly touching moments of humanity, ethics and morals are rather rare
in warfare. The Christmas Truce of WWI was an excellent example of such
humanity, as were the heroic actions of German Luftwaffe fighter pilot
Franz Stigler on December 20th, 1943. His actions got nine men home for Christmas.

Charlie
Brown of the USAAF was a Lt. flying his first mission as an aircraft
commander flying a B-17, “Ye Olde Pub” on a bombing run over Bremen.
Brown’s bomber occupied the especially dangerous left of the formation,
sometimes called the Purple Heart Corner. Bremen was defended by a large
contingent of fighters and well-manned flak guns. Two B-17s were
quickly struck by heavy flak, and many went down. Brown’s bomber was hit
at least once in the left wing. The crew had to shut down an engine
which took them out of the formation. Soon they were met by about eight
enemy fighters.

The B-17 was sometimes referred to as the flying
porcupine and Ye Olde Pub sure lived up to The name. the gunners took
out at least one of the fighters and as many as three, all on their own.
The remaining fighters were still able to take the fight to the bomber,
however, and bullets tore through Ye Olde Pub.

Rudolf originally maintained conventional attitudes towards gas chambers
at Auschwitz, but then began to challenge accepted history.[4] In 1991, he began work on a paper entitled Report on the formation and verifiability of cyanide compounds in the Auschwitz "gas chambers" on behalf of the Düsseldorf attorney Hajo Herrmann, a former Luftwaffe
pilot. In 1993, this work was reported in the media, and Rudolf was
told not to enter the Max Planck Institute again without permission.
When he did so, his employment was terminated without notice. In 1994,
this dismissal was converted into a termination by mutual agreement. In
1996, the University of Stuttgart
asked Rudolf to withdraw his application for a final PhD examination,
or it would be denied, rendering his PhD thesis worthless. The legal
basis for this is a German law which allows universities to deny or
withdraw academic degrees where the candidate has used his academic
credentials or knowledge to commit a crime. Rudolf subsequently withdrew
his application.

In 1995, Rudolf was sentenced to 14 months in prison for inciting racial hatred by the district court of Stuttgart because of the "Rudolf Report", as Holocaust denial is a crime in Germany. Rudolf avoided prison by fleeing to Spain, England, and finally to the United States.[1] His first marriage was to a German national with whom he had two children, and they settled at Hastings in England, until his wife divorced him and returned to Germany with their children.[3]

Top 7 Facts About Michael Wittmann, the Biggest Panzer Ace in WWII

Michael Wittmann, the most successful panzer ace of the Second World War
and in the history of warfare was a charismatic person and his
accomplishments on the battlefield were often met with praise. Before he
became the famous Ace, he served as a private, joining the Army in
1934.

War.History.Online wrote:

He returned to the battlefield in 1943, right on time to participate in
the biggest tank battle in history ― The Battle of Kursk, or as the
Germans called it ― Operation Citadel. His death count began to rise.
Wittmann destroyed 12 Soviet T-34 tanks in the first day alone. On this
occasion, he rescued Helmut Wendorff and his squad who were pinned down
by the Red Army armor. This was on July 5, 1943. The battle which
included the bloody battle for the city of Kharkov ended on July 17 and
Wittmann’s score included 30 tanks and 28 anti-tank guns.

Wittmann’s Tiger S04 and his crew. The second man from the left is Bobby Woll. By Bundesarchiv, CC-BY-SA 3.0, CC BY-SA 3.0 de

Contemporary news agencies are often
blamed for photo manipulations. It started long ago in fact. Back in the
times of WWII graphic artists learnt to distor reality and show what
they wanted to show but not what really had happened. Thus, they often
added excessive Nazi atrocities, terrible ruins and looting to fill
papers with horrifying images.

However we do not have to exclude that
such atrocities and other terrific events could really happen, it was
just difficult to catch them with a camera due to their spontaneity.
Photographers were rarely in a right time and in a right place. It's
today when everyone has a cameraphone we can shoot everything we see.

Photo manipulations as an instrument of
propaganda is claimed to be natural. Below you will see some photos
taken during WWII that underwent montage for the purpose of propaganda.

http://englishrussia.com/2012/09/06/photo-manipulations-in-the-ussr/<p style="margin-bottom: 20px;">Contemporary news agencies are often blamed for photo manipulations. It started long ago in fact. Back in the times of WWII graphic artists learnt to distor reality and show what they wanted to show but not what really had happened. Thus, they often added excessive Nazi atrocities, terrible ruins and looting to fill papers with horrifying images.<p style="margin-bottom: 20px;">However we do not have to exclude that such atrocities and other terrific events could really happen, it was just difficult to catch them with a camera due to their spontaneity. Photographers were rarely in a right time and in a right place. It's today when everyone has a cameraphone we can shoot everything we see.Photo manipulations as an instrument of propaganda is claimed to be natural. Below you will see some photos taken during WWII that underwent montage for the purpose of propaganda.

An Egyptian journalist wrote an op-ed claiming that Hitler only murdered
between 100,000-600,000 Jews – and not six million – and that he was
justified in doing so because Jews had seized control of Germany,
spreading pornography and homosexuality as well as engineering the
country’s economic collapse.

“They forced their presence upon the media, and in film, theater and
literature. They were granted excessive dominance and promotion. While
gaining this dominance they brought about most of the bank collapses
between 1870 and 1920.”

Montasser continues, “They caused many
financial collapses, and this is not Nazi propaganda. The Jews
themselves admitted it. During this period millions of German households
lost their livelihood, their savings and their investment options
because of the Jewish banking gangs.”

David Irving - 'Fifty years of fighting for truth, whatever the cost'

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